March 02, 2015, 6:32PM

St. John the Baptist Sheriff's Office deputies said a Norco man wanted in connection with a LaPlace business burglary was arrested Monday (March 2) in Kenner, and now they are asking the public for help locating the man's accomplice. Sheriff Mike Tregre's office said evidence at the scene of a Feb. 16 burglary at Jackson Industries linked Chad Cooper, 29,... Full story »

February 16, 2015, 7:09PM

A LaPlace man has been awarded $250,000 after a jury found that four St. John the Baptist Parish sheriff's deputies were negligent and partially responsible for the shooting death of his 60-year-old mother. The jury also found that the woman, Barbara Lassere, was half to blame for her death, according to court records. The wrongful death suit, filed in... Full story »

January 21, 2015, 7:04PM

Authorities in St. John the Baptist Parish are asking for help in identifying a gunman they say broke into a LaPlace couple's home Friday night (Jan. 16), and forced them to drive him to their business where he stole an undisclosed amount of money. The St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office released a surveillance camera photograph of the suspect... Full story »

December 29, 2014, 5:03PM

The St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office doesn't owe $6,000 in legal fees to a woman whose car was seized in connection with a drug prosecution of her son, a state appeals court ruled. The Dec. 16 ruling by the state Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district judge's order for the Sheriff's Office to pay the money to... Full story »

December 23, 2014, 2:00PM

St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff Mike Tregre and one of his deputies were named in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the sister of a LaPlace man who died in July after the deputy used a Taser electroshock gun to subdue him during an arrest. The suit alleges that negligence and lack of training, specifically in the use of... Full story »

December 16, 2014, 5:57PM

Lax financial oversight at the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office enabled a contract worker to embezzle more than $42,000 over 18 months, according to a new state audit. It criticizes the agency's inadequate accounting system and money-handling processes. The audit, released Monday by the state legislative auditor's office, says the Sheriff's Office lacked adequate polices and procedures to... Full story »

October 21, 2014, 10:38PM

A 70-year-old woman managed to thwart an attempted home invasion Monday afternoon at her LaPlace apartment, according to St. John the Baptist Parish authorities. According to a sheriff's department release, the woman pulled up to her apartment in the 300 block of Fairway Drive around 2:10 p.m. and was removing items from her car when a young man wearing a dark... Full story »

September 25, 2014, 10:14PM

An on-duty St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's deputy who was shot and killed by fellow officers on Wednesday (Sept. 23) was holding his wife hostage and had threatened to kill her, Sheriff Mike Tregre confirmed Thursday. "Yes, multiple times, he threatened to kill her," Tregre said. "I don't want to minimize that. It was both, a standoff/hostage situation." Authorities... Full story »

September 24, 2014, 10:00PM

At 50, Lt. Nolan Anderson of LaPlace had spent half his life as a member of the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office. Now, the Louisiana State Police is attempting to piece together the tragic series of events that led the 25-year veteran -- on duty and in uniform at the time -- to be shot and killed by... Full story »

September 24, 2014, 6:25PM

The St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office released a photograph Wednesday afternoon of Lt. Nolan Anderson, whom fellow deputies shot and killed after he fired on them at a house in LaPlace. Nolan was a 25-year veteran of the Sheriff's Office and commander of its warrants division. He was involved in a domestic dispute with his wife, Lisa, when... Full story »

September 24, 2014, 2:35PM

Sheriff's deputies shot and killed a fellow deputy who opened fire on them Wednesday while they were investigating a domestic dispute at his daughter's house in LaPlace, authorities said. Neighbors and a relatives identified the dead officer as Lt. Nolan Anderson, a 25-year veteran of the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office. See updated story. Anderson, in uniform and... Full story »

September 21, 2014, 10:52AM

One of two people suspected in an early-morning carjacking in New Orleans was arrested Sunday (Sept. 21) in Metairie, following a high-speed chase that spanned two parishes and injured a JPSO deputy. Kenneth Hayes, 17, was booked into Jefferson Parish Correctional Center after deputies caught him fleeing the scene after crashing a stolen car into two JPSO vehicles on... Full story »

September 11, 2014, 11:08PM

A fight between a man and a woman Wednesday evening (Sept. 10) led St. John Parish authorities to discover a meth lab inside a home in LaPlace, according to a St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office release. (See follow-up story.) Deputies found the "clandestine methamphetamine laboratory" around 6:15 p.m. inside a home in the 400 block of Birch Street,... Full story »

August 28, 2014, 4:59PM

A contract worker who transcribed statements taken by St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office detectives was arrested Thursday on charges of padding invoices and double-billing the agency to collect an extra $42,534, the Sheriff's Office said. Rachel Marie Bourgois, 43, had worked in the criminal investigations division since June 2008. Sheriff's Office detectives and the state attorney general's office... Full story »

July 28, 2014, 7:20PM

A 30-year-old LaPlace man was found fatally shot in the head and left in a ditch Monday morning (July 28), according to the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office. Deputies found the body of Kentrell Dyion Bailey about 8:30 a.m. in a ditch at the intersection of Main Street and Farm Road in LaPlace, authorities said. He was... Full story »

July 26, 2014, 3:34PM

The reported victim of a mid-July kidnapping in LaPlace was herself arrested, booked with obstruction of justice in the case in which her boyfriend was accused of taking her captive. Brittanysha Morgan, 26, was arrested Friday after admitting to detectives she had contacted Christopher Marshall every day since the alleged July 11 kidnapping incident, the St. John The Baptish... Full story »